For educators using Google Classroom, you can sync your students from your Classroom roster with Flipgrid to grant your students access to Flipgrid Groups and Topics directly - no email domains nor student usernames required! With this Permission type, Flipgrid will use the Google Class roster to determine who can access the Group or Topic.

1. Setting the 'Google Classroom' Permission
2. Changing the Google Class for a Flipgrid Group
3. Adding or Removing Students from the Group
4. Accessing Flipgrid from Google Classroom
5. Google Classroom Integration under User Profile
6. Additional features and expanding into a full integration

Setting the 'Google Classroom' Permission

1. Log in to your Educator Dashboard at https://admin.flipgrid.com/
2. Create a new Group, or edit the settings for an existing Group by selecting Actions > Edit Group or the pencil button
3. Scroll down to 'Permissions', and select Google Classroom
4. Select Sign in with Google and choose the Google account linked to your Google Classroom you'd like to sync
5. Review the privacy prompt and select Allow to grant Flipgrid access to your Google Classroom 
6. Once you've logged into your Google account, select a Class from the drop-down 
7. Click Create Group or Update Group to save your changes

You can then share the Group or any of its Topics to a Google Classroom as usual.

Educators can only set Google Classroom permissions at the Group level. This means:

• All Topics in the Group will use that same Permission type. Only the students in your Class roster can access the Group and those Topics, and you won't be able to grant others access via email nor guest password.
• If you only need a single Topic, you'll still have to create a Group first and then create the Topic in that Group. You can then share just the Topic by itself with your Google Class.

Changing the Google Class for a Flipgrid Group

To change the Class linked to a Group:

1. Go to edit the Group by selecting Actions or the pencil icon within your Discussions page
2. Scroll to the Permissions section and select Log out 
3. Select Sign in with Google and choose the Google account linked to your Google Classroom you'd like to sync
4. Review the privacy prompt and select Allow to grant Flipgrid access to your Google Classroom 
5. Once you've logged into your Google account, select a Class from the drop-down 
6. Click Create Group or Update Group to save your changes

This change will not take effect until you click Update Group to save the new Google Class.

Clicking Log out will not remove the Permission setting either, as it'll continue to use the Class that was last saved.

If you'd like to stop using 'Google Classroom' for a Group and remove access for everyone in the Google Class, please select a different Permission type and then save your changes.

Adding or Removing Students From the Group

Educators can add or remove students from the Google Class roster and then sync the changes to the Flipgrid Group to allow or deny those students access respectively:

1. Edit the Class roster in Google Classroom
2. Log in to your Educator Dashboard at https://admin.flipgrid.com/
3. Open the Group associated with the Google Class where you edited the roster
4. Click on the Students tab, and click Sync Roster to update the list of students that can access the Group to the latest Google Class roster

If you don't see the 'Sync Roster' button, please go to the Permissions in your Group settings and log in to your Google Classroom account. Furthermore, students must have accepted the invitation to join the Class or enrolled in it themselves to get access after the roster has been synced.

Accessing Flipgrid From Google Classroom

To open a Group or Topic with this Permission type, students should click Join with Google when prompted and then log in with the same Google account they use for Google Classroom. The Group or Topic will load and, when they're ready, they simply click Record a Response to join the discussion!

Google Classroom Integration under User Profile

You can also integrate your Google Classroom directly from the integrations page. 

1. Access your Educator account at admin.flipgrid.com
2. Go to the top right corner and select your profile icon
3. Select Integrations
4. Select Sign in with Google and choose the Google account linked to your Google Classroom you'd like to sync
5. Review the privacy prompt and select Allow to grant Flipgrid access to your Google Classroom 
6. Google Classroom will be available whenever you create a new Group

• If you decide to Log out, you will be logged out of all of your Groups that had the permission type set for Google Roster

Additional Features and Expanding Into a Full Integration

By using this Permission type, your Google Classroom roster will also be imported into the Student list for the Group in the Flipgrid Educator Dashboard - please see this article for details on how to use this list. Students will also be able to review and manage all their submissions at https://my.flipgrid.com/.

That said, 'Google Classroom' is offered as another Permission type right now, and not a full integration. For example:

• When you're reviewing Assignments, video submissions can only be opened in Flipgrid; and the Flipgrid grading system isn't connected to the one in Google Classroom.
• Co-teachers in the Google Class won't have access to the Flipgrid Group or its Topics. Instead, please add teachers as CoPilots of the Group to grant them access.